'POULTRY NOTES, By "Tight Feather." At this time of the year poultry keepers should be giving much atten tion to the mating of birds for the coming hatching season. All birds intended for stud purposes -should be mated up early in July. This applies particularly to heavy breeds, such as Rocks, Orpingto.ns. Reds, Dorkings, Wyandottes, etc, which when mated up should consist of six hens and one cockerel. The foundation of successful poul try-keeping is the correct mating of birds. Other matters. are very impor tant; fertilb eggs must be secured, the eggs must be hatched, .'hickens must be reared, the fowls must be pro. perly housed and fed, and the pro ducts, whether' eggs or market birds, must be disposed of to the best pos sible advantage. But back of and un. derneath these lies the problem of mating, and unless this is as near as possible correct, wvell, advancement? will be'. slow. ? .From now' on~varil poultry fanciers will be busy inaking plans and form ing good resolutions for ...

FOOTBALL: Continued There were no matches in the Metropolitan League last Saturday, F. Sunshine United indulged ini a friendly match amongst themselves. Several now players were on view, and as they have since been secured for the local club they should prove a distinct ac quisition. The first round of the Dochorty Cup is to he lilayed to-day, and Sunshine have Melbourne Welsh as their opponents. This tit-bit, in the local soccer world. las to be played on Sunshine United's new ground, viz., ground close to the station, adjoining Drayton's Pottery. The match in timed to commence at :8 p.m., but it is re quested that members, etc., will en deavour to get to the ground sonm. time before that to help mark the new pitch out. The team to sport the club's new colours (red and white Jer,. seys) to-day, has been picked as fol lows:-Fultbn (goal); Lavery and Springett (backs); McColl, Burns, capt., Nicolson (half-backs); Donald, Drennc.'i, Arrowsmith, Sheriffs and Grifliths (forwards). Groun...

BURKE STREET CHANNEL Is it Conpli ted. To the Editor "Sunshi.ie Advocate." Sir,-The ratepayers of the River Riding are wondering" if the channel recently ploughed in Burke street, Braybrook, is completed. The en trance to the football ground, if work is finished, will be nothing but a swamp, as the channel is ploughed deeper in the lowest portion, and half way between Raleigh street and Mul longer street it comes. to an ,abrupt ending, and the .water would have to flow up hill to get to the river. From Mullenger street to..theq rivcr the chan. nel runs up and dowh, and will only tend to hold the water until it be comes stagnant. There seems to. have been no levels taken, but the work done in a haphazard manner. This class of work only causes indignation among the ratepayers; who claim better supervision should be given over this class of work.-Yours,; etc., RATEPAYER;

DISINFECT THE CHANNELS To the Editor "Sunshi'ne Advocate," Sir,-In the interests of the health of the district of Sunshine mniy I urge upon the ratcpayers that immediate steps be taken to see that the council shall at once attend t6 the drainage. It seems hardly creditable that such a state of things should exist.- Hovw can we' possibly have a' healthy dis trict with drains over dirty, and al ways ready to inripart such deadly diseases as typhoid 'arid diphtheria. May I suggest that the..council rfd the drains of grass and. weeds at least two or three feet: from the actual drop, and then have hot tar poured over followed by sand, and so kill the germs. The housewife would. I am sure, be only too willing to cc operate with the council and keep the drains free froni any liquid for a whole day, or more if necessary. A hole could be dug in their yard, and drain age soaked and phenyled for the day, whilst the process was being done. Youi's, etc., JEANNIE RICHARDSON, The Vicarage, Sunshin...

The Albion Quarry's new crushing plant is. approaching completion, and will be one of the. latset and best equipped crushing plants in the State. Large rotary crushers have .been im ported from England, from the cele brated engineering firm of Bellis and Morcom, whose excellent':high-speed steam engines are known the world over. The whole of the new crush ing plant will be. driven by electric Power, and will be provided, with various contrivances. for economically ý4eating the raw inaterial. At pVe Lt two crushing plants, of a less modern type, are in daily use upon the property, and altogether some 200 men are engaged in quarrying operations. The drillinrr is done by compressed air plants, also driven by electric power, and when the new bat tery coimmences operations it will be fed bhv a new iron trolly .scheme, which promises to make the former .tra"is port system a( back page altogethe?; ·.

SUNSHINE ,.,N.A. The ordinary meeting of the Sun shine branch A.N.A. was held i:n St. Mark's Hall on Monday, Juiie 20. The president, Mr. McBride, occupied the chair. Reports on sick members, nil, which speaks well for this time of the year. Mr. Scott, the secretary, read the annual report and balance-sheet, which showcd a very good financial state. Mr. McBride reported having inter viewed the dentist re a dentist for the branch. The meeting then/ closdd, and a game of carpet bowls `was then. played, which proved very exciting, between Messrs. G. Bofshi' and W. Roney, captains, these two being old members of the local bowling club. The teams consisted of Messrs.' Bosher (capt.), Napier 1, Makepeace 2, Mr. Roney (capt.), McBride, a'nd E. Smith 2. The game was won by a narrow nmargin by Mr. Reney's team, due.mainly to the good'play of Mr. E. Sniith. Members please note, anid' roll up for more bowls on Monday next,

SUNSHINE GOLF CLUB On Saturday afternoon the Pines club from Sunbury will be down to play a friendly game with the home club. Ladies are reminded that the aftcrnoon tea will be general. The following players will represent Sun shine, and they are requested to be on the links as early as possible: Ladies.-Mrs. Clinnick, Mrs. Bell, Mfrs. Tamagno, Mrs. Lawsoh, MiA's Matthews, Mrs. Williams;, emergen cies, Mrs. Fordham and Miss Hill. Gentlemen.-Messrs. Thacker, Hardie, Williams, Grant, Lawson, Tamagno, Pippett, Hill, Hutchinson, .Johnstone, Nixon, J. Ferguson; emergencies, Messrs. C. Thompson and J. Glen. The weather last Saturday was ideal for golfing, and there was a good attendance at the links. A stroke com petition was held, and some gbod cards were handed in, the best being:-Mrs. Bell, 39. net; Mr. Hardie, 38; Mr. Grant, 33. The success of the afternoon was greatly added to by the' prv'i?ion.of afternoon tea by Misses 1Bdxfer and Matthews. The following are the scores:- Gents.-J. ...

RIVER POLLUTION To the Editor "Sunshine Advocate." Sir,-Your report relative to the pollution of the Maribyrnong River contained under "Items of Interest" in your issue of the 28th ulto., is apt to create a very erroneous impression in the minds of your readers. Your report sets out that the InSpector of Nuisances of the Council stated at the council table that he had written two letters to myself with regard to idence, but had received no reply. e statement, as it stands, would imply that members of this committee are at default in not supplying the council with the evidence relative to W. Pridham Ptr. Ltd. Such.is not the case, because this committee for warded to the secretary of the council, per pre-paid registered post, on May 8th last the exact nature of the pollu tion, and exactly what members of this committee were prepared to testify to. The communication forwarded to the secretary of the council; under date of May 8th, 1924, stated (inter alia): "In a recent issue of the "...

EXTRAORDINARY EXPLO ION The Albion Quarrying Co.'s quarry propertY at Albion was the scene of an extraordinary explosion, which oc curred -at 2.45 on the morning of Wednesday, when the powder maga ne -was blown, to pieces. About 0. lb. of powder was destroyed. A large quantity of gelignite which wa:J parcelled up in boxes in the building, did not explode with the concussion, but some of it caught fire and illu minated the surroundings somewhat. The.explosion was heard far and wide, many people rising from their couches in Sunshine and Dccr Park to ascertain the cause of the disturb ance. About £50 worth of explosives was destroyed. The gelignite which did not explode was condemned next day by the cxplosives inspector and destroyed by burning. There is no accounting for the explosion, but the late hour at which the explosion took place might signify that someone had visited the depot during the night perhaps for a dishonest purpose-and dropped a match, which smouldered in the bagging...